Author: Al Cross
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Kentucky and Ohio are now exchanging prescription data, but system needs more use by health-care providers and police
Kentucky and Ohio are now automatically exchanging data on prescription drugs, with a new electronic network called the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange. PMIX links the Kentucky All- Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting...
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Louisville vascular surgeon provides ‘hands on’ support for troops
Dr. Andrea Yancey, a vascular surgeon from Louisville, has completed two weeks of volunteer service treating wounded American soldiers transported from Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional...
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Planned merger of Louisville hospitals grows more controversial; C-J devotes considerable space to it and Beshear steps in
UPDATE, July 27, 3:43 p.m.: Gov. Steve Beshear issued a statement saying “It is clear there are growing concerns within the community about issues related to the hospital’s future level...
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Louisville hospital merger could thwart some patients’ final wishes
More concerns are being raised about the merger that would put a Catholic hospital group in charge of the University of Louisville‘s hospital. First, it was the prospect that women...
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UK center probes the science of muscles and exercise
Exercise is good for you. But it’s not that simple. “Doctors and scientists have a lot of questions about why exercise is so beneficial, how muscles work and the role...
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Optometrists, ophthalmologists renew battle over optometrists’ ability to perform medical procedures
Ophthalmologists renewed their fight yesterday against new rules “that would allow optometrists to perform more complex procedures that critics say will endanger patients,” Mike Wynn of The Courier-Journal reports. The...
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Former boss of troubled personal-care home is indicted
“Another former administrator of a troubled Letcher County personal care home has been indicted on charges of witness tampering and theft,” Beth Musgrave reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A county...
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Patients in isolated rural areas have higher rates of death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease living in isolated rural areas “seem to be at greater risk” of death from COPD than those living in urban areas, even when “hospital rurality...
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Louisville hospital merger probably means poor women won’t get their tubes tied at University Hospital any more
Women who deliver through Caesarean sections at the University of Louisville Hospital may no longer be able to get their fallopian tubes tied at the same time, Patrick Howington of the...
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Access to healthy food: A local angle is available on a national event tomorrow, and here’s a Kentucky example
Update, July 21: First Lady Michelle Obama announced Wal-Mart and other retailers plan to open or expand 1,500 stores in the next five years in areas that do not have...